Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-17
M f DICA l. In H A l. A Il d N
Combined with Constitutional Remedies.

" OF the respiratory phssaseS ConsAetS -
its dilect effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such ny
gieDic measures and administering sucn
medicines by the stomach as WILL most Ell
fectually purify the blood. give tone to
the nervous system, aud bald up and
strengthen the general constitution. In
olher words, we employ combined local
and general treatment.
What is MEDICAL inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical lnha.ation
is, we propose, in as few words as possible.
to state clearly what 1t is not.
Medical Inhalation is not cure-all.
nostrum, or a panacea. 1t is not specific
medicine or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that flesh is heir to, an intended to
fill the pockets of its proprietors. II Is nos
a talisman, whose possession insures nealth
to its possessor without the Intervention OF
sense or Judgment. Medical Inhalation is
none OF these things.
Medical Inhalation is simply aud solely a
method of taking medicines by inhaling or
breathing them into the lungs insteao OF
swallowing them into the stomach. BY In,
halation, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat of the disease, in the
nose, throat or lungs; and 1t is clear 10
every reasoning perton how peculiarly ap
plicable InhaIation is in the disorders OF
the organs named. If you have scalded or
burned the surface of the body, or wounded
any limb or member. you do not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the dlsor-
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you apply
Il directly to the seat of the wound or in
jury. Why then. when suffering from ca
tar h of the nasal passages or throat, or al
flicted with ulceratiOn of the lungs, should
you rely on medicines taken into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
proper healing remedies to the seat of the
disease, but 1t applies the remedy IN the
gaseous or vaporous fern, In which form,
as is well known, medicines act most power.
fully. How much greater, for example, Is
the effect of a drachm Of chloroform, when
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
quantity when swallowed into the stomach
The same is true OF chlorine, OF iodine, ana
of many other substances. BY inhalation
the medicine is not poured into the stomach
and thence sent wandering through the
system in search of a malady which may be
mainly or entirelya local one; but by this
method the proper remedy is apPaea @ ,tn- ai-
studying the anotOmy of the lungs: can
doubt that Inflammation and liberation OF
the air-tubes and air-cells. the direct appl1-
cation of the healing medicine BY inhala.
ton to the disea sed parts, Is the correct and
rational method Of treatment? Who. on
the other hand, can be so irrational as to
believe that the proper and direct way 10
reach the diseased surfaces of the air
passages in this case, is by the way OF the
stomach? Physiology teaches us that the
membrane. or skin lining the air-passages
of the nose, throat and lungs, is only a
slightly modified form OF the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment lie proper and necessary for int1am-
nations, concessions and alterations of the
one and not be equally so in the case of the
other?
Our experience and success in treating
diseases Of the nose, throat and lungs. de-
monstrates, beyond all question, that the
| true scientific treatment OF these diseases is
| that treatment which combines the local
effects of medical inhalation with the con-
stitutional effects of systematic remedies,
given in the usual way by the stomach.
| One or both methods must be adopted as
| the circumstances demand, and such RENE
dies must be employed as the experience
/ and judgment of the physician have proved
| to be proper in each particular case.
Medical of In hal n tiOn.
PHYSICIANS who were educated twenty
wears ago or more, and who have not kept
| IN with the times in the advance in medi-
| cal science, have very little idea OF the great
importance all leading writers now give to
Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pull
monary diseases. To such an extent is this
| true that no patient should intrust his case
| to auy physician who is not well prepared
and thoroughly equipped with everything
necessary for the administering OF the
proper remedies by the method OF lnhala-
ton.
The numerous cures effected by inhala.
lation in cases seemingly past all help, and
the uniform success attending It's use In
diseases of the respiratory organs, renders
it obligatory on every honest physician to
at once apply himself to gain practical
knowledge of the Inhalation, or, If that is
not possible, he is at least bound to decline
to treat such cases.
the age who are fully awakened to the value
OF Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
Or. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy OF
| lin; Drs. Klebs and Tommasi-Crudeli; Sir
Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland; /;
DR.. Kichler, DR.. Cameron. DR.. Gurdon Buck,
Prot: Albert khert, the celebrated Dr..
| ert Dickinson. Prof. Thierfelder. Spencer
Wells, DR.. Hilton Flagge, DR.. G. p. Wood.
Drs: FriIsch and HitEig. Dr: Fothergill, DR..
Richard Thompson, Dr.; R. Carpenter
Krauss. Huguenie, Heller, 0rth, Corrigan,
| Fenwick, and many others.
With scarcely a single exception every
medical authority of eminence recognizes
the wonderful potency of this new method,
and the. coming generation Of physicians
are certain to be thoroughly educated
therein. At present 1t Is only few physi.
clans here and there who have made "Dis-
eases of Respiration" a life study that are
fitted in any way to employ the wonderful
resources of Medical Inhalation in the cure
of these diseases.
The Durability of Consumption.
Il For FIVE years the celebrated DIR. 1. H
Bennett waa pathologist to the Ryai In
Urinary of Edinburgh, and In his great
work on Consumption" he makes the fol-
lowing statement:
During this period made upwards of
1000 post tmortem examinations of persons
dying from various diseases, and was
con stantly meeting with cases in which /
found cavities in the lungs from consump
cicatrized years before the death of the
subject. Nature did not seem to have been
successful In restoring the wasted lung.
substance, but the cavities were dried up
the progress of the disease ARE sted, and
| the subject lived for years, with diminished
lung power 1t is true, but otherwise in good
health"
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